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Given the burdensome text of the play, its often trying twists and turns, and the demand for imagination rather than representation, the cast pulls it off rather well. Michelle Haner is well-cast as the youthful and somewhat spacey Alex, who flirts with the various characters encountered in "Terra Incognita" and has a deep penchant for the "slanguage" of 1955. Susan Gray maintains a prim conservatism throughout the play as Fanny, a young old-maid from the Midwest. Amanda Frye wields words well as Mary, a "passionate scientist" with a particularly obscure vocabulary and an inclination to corny eloquence...
Parikh's Arrola Derby is hilarious. The Puerto Rican accent is very funny, and he moves away from the totally spacey persona he played in last year's Whiskey Business to take a fairly central role in this year's show. His roller-skating duet with St. Clair--"I Got Hugh, Babe"--was fantastic, although I was a bit concerned that one or both of the actors would end up sprawled in the orchestra...
...INNOCENCE MISSION: THE INNOCENCE MISSION (A&M). Pleasing, slightly spacey sounds that are tinged with '60s folk rock and psychedelia, then spruced up with shades of Joni Mitchell ("I showed him my notebook/ The underside of my soul") and a little jolt of feminism. Overwrought -- but promising...
Carol Anne, a spacey housewife with overactive hormones, grabs her husband one morning while he is shaving. "Guess who's ovulating," she chirps enticingly. Janice, a single mother who tells anyone who will listen that she hasn't had sex in three years, agrees to go out with a motorcycle cop who has been pursuing her. Just a casual dinner date at the local hotel, he promises. "Get a room," she says. Desmond, the longtime butler to a wealthy industrialist, makes a confession. Years ago, the boss's third wife found out about his philandering and used Desmond to take...
...Mary's this geek Psych person [a Psychology major] who's really directed, and I'm really spacey," says Betsy, who is an English major. "People think of us as 'the McCaggs' or 'the twins,' and it's weird...